24. "Not there"
Of course he was used to it, the hazard of rain, and he understood; but here and now, the chase, an Ishvarite man and those red eyes, staring—it was enough to make him forget , to make him go mad a very little about the edges (and Fullmetal was still only a child and had played no part in this. It made Roy livid, that a child would be singled out in the aftermath for revenge—) to take him circuitously back in time to when he could so very easily reach out and—
It was Hawkeye who brought him back to the present, of course, and it was an easy thing for her to do. It shouldn't have been, shouldn't have had to have been—but Roy was grateful for he nonetheless, and he could not stop shaking.